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The path of austerity could spread economic pain and social woes far beyond the Caribbean island, says public debt expert Martin Guzman 

How a Banking Union Has Created Deep Divisions that Undermine the Eurozone’s Stability

Why it’s urgent that China adjust its balance of payment structure and safeguard its foreign assets

This blog post looks at the aggregate picture and collates some micro evidence in a more robust estimating framework to shed light on this question.

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord sets the US economy back

In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.

Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions 

INET grantee JW Mason has been engaged in an important debate with the Financial Times’ Matthew Klein over the relationship of household debt to income inequality

To mark International Women’s Day, Neva Goodwin argues that the crisis of income insecurity and longstanding gender inequality require a form of universal basic income that recognizes and rewards the value of household labor

A presentation from The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy, the first annual conference of The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at The University of Copenhagen